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wahine_lani
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Gender: Female
Interests: Food, shopping, cooking, crafting, you, trashy romance novels
Expertise: Me...I know my self.
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| I know that blogging is a job now and as much as I love the content - what would I do without Bloglines?? - it makes me feel hesistant to blog about my mundane life. Not so sure if that's good or bad - good because less junk out there for people to read, or bad because now I'm probably not going to have a record of things that I maybe would have wanted to remember. I will try to be better but no promises. I don't like breaking promises.
I wish I could say that there's so much to report, but there really isn't (which is shame!). I was supposed to go to Mexico but because of the swine flu, I stayed in town instead and tried to make goat cheese. It came out one batch but I ruined the next batch and completely forgot to take pictures. Doesn't really matter, since it was tasty! =) I also made limoncello again this summer, but I lost my old recipe and the one I found is very syrupy. I don't remember that from the last time that I made it. My camera has also taken a beating and I haven't had the time and because I don't really take pictures too often, I haven't felt pressed to get a new one. We decided with the home renovation tax credit this year that we're allocating alot of our travel budget to fixing up our house. Next year we'll be flying quite a bit since there's a lot of weddings that we're going to attend - I guess 2010 just seems to be the year for a lot of our friends.
On the craft/home front, we've decided to do our entire basement bathroom renovation ourselves (but we're hiring a plumber). This should be...interesting. I've also been tired of not finding clothing that I like or that fits me properly, and even though I can't sew well, I've been trying to deconstruct and piece them back together. I've ended up hand sewing pieces together because then I can't rush ahead without thinking and then ruining things...but that means, I've been trying to fix the neckline on the same top for the past two weeks even though I work on it for about an hour every day. I am not sure if this is worth it...but it's something to do I guess. I've almost completely stopped watching tv now. What is it about sunshine and longer days that make me want to be more productive? The alternative is working out, but uhhh, yeah, I'll keep trucking on that shirt. :P
I have been listening to Julie London and I found this song "My Heart Belongs to Daddy". I'm not sure if it's just old and that she's talking about her real daddy, or if it's a sugar daddy...and it makes me giggle every time it plays.
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| With my trip to Quebec City coming up and then Vancouver, I'm starting to feel like I'm running out of shopping for Christmas time! So the soaping that had been on hiatus has started up again. Pretty much a lack of any ideas for presents for the ladies in the family has had me crafting both weekends. With the lemon sugar foaming scrub I made last time, I figure they're going to get some soap and foot scrub. I'm just a bit worried about flying with the stuff, but I'm sure I can work it out.
 Lemon Honey and Sugar soap.  Creme Brulee soap.  Chocolate milk soap.
Note to self, stop trying to add salt to soap for layers. It's reacting really badly.
Not too much in my world is going on. I did start thinking about a couple of things...like what is a realistic earning cap? I mean, seriously...at what point will I be happy with my income and face a reality where there are no crazy raises or anything of the sort? It's just been sitting in the back of my mind, because I guess I'm starting to think about another career and I'm wondering what to do. Basically choosing between something that will provide more money and more work, or less work but will I be happy with the less money than comes with less work. It's definitely got the hamster running in my wheel for sure.
And I'm so happy with my paperwhites! Day 12 update:
 I don't know why they're all different heights, even though I started them all on the same day. I want to go pick up an amaryllis as well. I like plants that just have to sit in water. :)
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| More for records than for show. I made the most delcious mini cheesecakes. Batter can be scaled up or down accordingly:
 | 1 brick (8oz) cream cheese
1/4 cup sour cream
1 tbsp flour
1 egg
1/3 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
Blend and pour into line cupcake tins, with any cookie that fits for the crust. Shortbread/Nilla wafers are awesome.
Bake for about 18-20 mins at 300°F. Top with any fruit topping. (I had some frozen blueberries so just thawed and added some sugar/cornstarch to make a glazed fruit topping.)
Each brick makes about ~ 8 or 9.
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I also bought some paperwhites and hopefully they'll grow this year instead of rotting like last year. I am optimistic since they at least sprouted this year! They didn't last time. Day 4 and counting...
I'm also trying to decide what to get for Christmas presents for the family. I got the Dads covered, just the Moms and other females (two sister in laws and my brother's gf who's pretty much like a sister in law...). I know it may be early, but I've been so busy with Halloween jsut passing...oh, speaking of Halloween...we were Strawberry Shortcake and the Cat in the Hat. But I digress. I'm also going to Quebec City for work in December for the two weekends before I go back to Vancouver for the holidays so I need to get my shopping done ASAP! I'm quickly running out of time. Any ideas for the women that have everything?
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| Is your writing proportional to how busy you are?
I don't think that it has any bearing on how much that I write but quite a few things have happened in the last little while.
The start date for when we were supposed to be in London has passed and it was a rough time for sure. I think the main thing was that we were both looking forward to a change and that was taken away from us. I'm not sure either of us dealt with the disappointment very well. I ended up booking us a vacation to Cuba! It was on sale so we jetting off there for 8 days. I would have had more to say about it except I got probably the worst food poisoning I've ever gotten while I was there halfway through. I didn't get to go to Havana but I did go to Varadero town and enjoyed the beach and resort the first half. Would I go back? I think I would, but not in a hurry. I found Cuba very poor, but it was a different poor to what I was used to. Most times even in poverty there seems to be feeling that people are still making the best of what they have, but I more got the impression that it was a show for the tourists and the locals really weren't that happy. It's a very strange position to be in as a tourist I think.
I also bought a new laptop although I don't know why because I can just as easily surf the net on my iphone. Haha, I have gotten into the habit of reading my feeds in bed on the weekend on my iphone. I think that may have prompted the laptop purchase. The iphone is still growing on me. I still hate the keyboard though and the fact that the email does not let you use the keyboard in a landscape mode is probably the most annoying thing I hate about it still.
What's other people doing for halloween? I have a costume but I'm not sure where I'm going yet. | | |
| I was told recently that I should write in a journal, by a person who doesn't know that I still have my journals from when I was...13? The point is that I haven't been writing as much lately and I wonder if it's adding to the stress in my life. At the same time I did make myself the promise that I wouldn't keep writing just because there's negative things going on.
When I read what I've written in the past, as long as I wasn't being insanely cryptic, I can pretty much take myself back to that exact moment and the feelings that I had then are right back with me. I can re-live these things. Do I really want to relive the bad times? It's almost a bit of a philosophical chicken and egg situation in my mind - writing is cathartic, but I tend to want to do it more when things are not good, but I don't want memories of those times. I love Xanga for being there whenever I chose to return. The person who got me thinking about this said that I should have a good journal and a bad journal, and just keep the good one but burn the bad one when it gets full. haha. There's another idea!
On the life scope, I just came back from my niece's fourth birthday in Vancouver. It was mayhem with a lot of adults and kids in a small house and has really demonstrated that I'm just not ready for that life. I don't think I could do it right now. At the same time, I realized that it's been four years since I left Vancouver! I'm not sure I have a lot to show for the years but it's definitely been a ride.
And oh yeah, I got the iphone. I don't love it, I don't hate it. It serves its purpose. I really got it to get the awesome data plan - 6Gigs for $30/month. I figure if anything I may end up selling that phone and just buying a different data using one (probably HTC). Not a lot of cooking/crafting at home but we got our fence painted and we have decided after this winter we're going to move...again. Haha, we are a nomadic pair for sure. Our realtor loves us. | | |
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